Objectives: Via an international panel of experts, this paper attempts to document, review,
interpret, and propose operational definitions used to describe the course of bipolar …

Background Most longitudinal or treatment studies in bipolar disorder have used
symptomatic or syndromal status as the primary outcome variable. More recently …

OBJECTIVE: The research literature on psychosocial disability and work in mood disorders
has either focused on relatively short-term course, or did not consider direct comparisons of …

Objective The aim was to examine the heterogeneity of psychosocial outcomes in euthymic
bipolar disorder (BD) patients and analyse the potential influence of distinct variables on …

Recent conceptualization of anxiety, depressive, and related" emotional" disorders
emphasize their similarities rather than their differences. In response, there has been a …

Previous studies have revealed psychosocial and cognitive impairments in patients during
depression. The primary aim of this study was to investigate whether patients with major …

Aim. Provide an overview of how bipolar disorder affects cognitive function in patients.
Methods. MEDLINE and PsycInfo data bases were searched for articles indexed by the …

The aim of the present review was to examine objective and subjective burdens in primary
caregivers (usually family members) of patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and to list which …

Bipolar disorder (BD) has been classically described as one of episodic mood disturbances.
New evidence suggests that a chronic course and multisystem involvement is the rule, rather …

Objectives: To determine the neural responses invoked in Theory of Mind (ToM) in euthymic
bipolar patients as compared with healthy subjects. Methods: This study examined 20 …